Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman will be reaching the country today (Saturday) to brief the top leadership on her meetings with the US officials on the normalisation of relations between Islamabad and Washington, which got strained after NATO strikes on Pakistani border posts in November last year that killed 24 soldiers.
Sherry departed for Washington last month to take charge of ambassadorial slot after Hussain Haqqani resigned from the office of Pakistani envoy in US in the wake of surfacing of ‘memogate’, a scandal that created a stir across Pakistan as Haqqani was alleged to have sent a secret letter on behalf of President Asif Ali Zardari to Obama administration asking for help to prevent a military coup in May last year.
Sherry, who is flying from London to Pakistan after being asked by the president to come back, will reach here on her first visit to Islamabad since she assumed the office and will give a detailed briefing to the president and the prime minister on what were the feelings in Washington on the current state of relations with its South Asian ally.
“Ambassador Sherry has been told by the US officials to convey to Pakistani leaders their request for early restoration of NATO supplies that were suspended in the wake of NATO attack on Pakistani border posts and she has also been told about the growing frustration among the policy makers in Washington over the delay in this regard,” said a diplomatic source seeking anonymity.
He said the ambassador had held meetings with top American leaders in the first few days of her take over as Pakistani envoy in Washington and she was in the best position to give her briefing to the country’s leadership on latest situation in the US capital and that was the case she had been asked to come to Islamabad.
Will she be briefing them or will they be de-briefing her?
Pakistan get de-brief alot these days
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